Unsplash / Nik MacMillanAmericans overtook the Brits for the first time in 2017 to become the world's biggest buyers of French champagne.British purchases fell for the second year running since the vote to leave the European Union.Spending habits...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several large U.S. retail companies, including Wal-Mart Inc, Target Corp, Best Buy Co Inc and Macy's Inc, on Monday sent President Donald Trump a letter urging him not to impose massive tariffs on goods imported from China.

WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - Several large U.S. retail companies, including Wal-Mart Inc, Target Corp, Best Buy Co Inc and Macy's Inc, on Monday sent President Donald Trump a letter urging him not to impose massive tariffs on goods imported from...

WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - Several large retail companies, including Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy and Macy's, are making a direct appeal to President Donald Trump not to impose massive tariffs on goods imported from China, in a letter sent to the...

LONDON (Reuters) - Regulators from across the world start work this week on a blueprint for a global "sandbox" or testing bed for new financial technology applications, Britain's Financial Conduct Authority said on Monday.

Markets InsiderFacebook's stock dipped early Monday morning.The social media giant has faced intense criticism over news that Cambridge Analytica, a political research company with ties to President Donald Trump, had allegedly...

Markets InsiderFacebook's stock dipped early Monday morning.The social media giant has faced intense criticism over news that Cambridge Analytica, a political research company with ties to President Donald Trump, had allegedly...

Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesBill Gates' new favorite book is "Enlightenment Now" by Steven Pinker.Pinker's book makes a case that rational thought and scientific inquiry are constantly improving the world.We're living in the safest era of human...

U.S. stocks opened lower on Monday, with investors holding off on making big bets ahead of a coming policy decision by the Federal Reserve. A sharp decline in shares of Facebook, one of the largest weights in both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq, added to...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several large retail companies, including Wal-Mart , Target , Best Buy and Macy's , are making a direct appeal to President Donald Trump not to impose massive tariffs on goods imported from China, in a letter sent to the White...

ShutterstockBuying a home in America is the most affordable it's been since 1980, according to new data from Trulia.Mortgage rates have dropped, which increases long-term affordability for homeowners.Only three of the 100 largest metros —...

Shares of GrubHub Inc. are down 2.1% in premarket trading Monday after analysts at Stifel downgraded the stock to hold from buy. The analysts, led by John Egbert, continue to like GrubHub's business and think that it will continue to build momentum...

(Reuters) - Oil giant Saudi Aramco is looking to buy a majority stake in a proposed refinery and petrochemical complex valued at 3 trillion rupees ($46.10 billion) in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, local daily Economic Times reported,...

Thomson ReutersBEIRUT (Reuters) - More than 200,000 people who fled a Turkey-led offensive on the Kurdish town of Afrin are without shelter or access to food and water in nearby areas, a Syrian Kurdish official from Afrin told Reuters on Monday."The...

LONDON (Reuters) - Shares were stuck on their worst run since November on Monday, as caution gripped traders in a week in which the Federal Reserve is likely to raise U.S. interest rates and perhaps signal as many as three more hikes lie in store...